Handle.



No. 870,910. PATENTED NOV. 12, 1907.

W. SPLITTG'ERBER.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. a. 1907.

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WILLIAM SPLITTGERBER, OF WAYNE, NEBRASKA.

HANDLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1907.

Application filed March 8, 1907. Serial No. 361,321.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, WILLIAM SPLITTGERBER, a citizen of the, UnitedStates, residing at Wayne, in the county of Wayne and State of Nebraska,have invented new and useful Improvements in Handles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a crank handle for cream separators or otherapparatus adapted to be manually operated bya crank, and the inventionhas for its prin- 'cipal object to provide a crank handle in which thehandle proper is so connected with the crank arm that it can be turnedto one side when not in use so as to be out of the way and take uplittle room.

A further object of'the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter of simple and durable construction, easy and inexpensive tomanufacture and convenient to manipulate.

With these objects in view and others, as will ap- 'pear as thedescription proceeds, the invention comprises the novel features ofconstruction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully describedhere inafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appendedhereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one of the embodiments orthe invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the crank handleshowing the handle proper innormal and inoperative positions by full anddotted lines, respectively. Fig. 2 is a side elevation with a portion ofthe crank arm in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 33,Fig. 2.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate similarpartsthroughout the several figures.

7 Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a rotary shaft towhich thecrank handle is applied, the crank handle being composed of a crank arm2 and a handle or grip The crank arm is preferably composed of twosections A and B arranged intelescoping relation so that the section Bto which the grip 3 is attached may be adjusted with respect to therelatively rigid section A. The section A has an inwardly extendingsocket 4 at its outer end into which extends the shaft or shank 5 of thesection B, which latter has a head 6 in the form of an eye, there beingpresented an annular shoulder 7 between the shank and head for. engagingthe end surface of the section A. The .ZWallOf the socket 4 has atransversely extending slot 8 slightly greater than ninety degrees andthrough thislslot extends a screw or other removable fastening 9 thatscrews into the shank 5 to connect the sections of the crank armtogether. By this means, the grip or handle proper 3 can be turnedthrough an arc of ninety degrees into an out-of-way position. The sockethas an aperture 10 in its wall that is adapted to register with thetapped opening 11.0f the shank 5, as shown in Fig. 2, for receiving ascrew (shown dotted) when itis desired to securely hold the handle orgrip 3 rigidly in its normal position.

If desired, the screw 9 can be left permanently in place and a secondscrew employed for engaging in the openings 10 and 11 to hold the handlein rigid position or a single screw can be used interchangeably forconnecting the crank arm sections loosely or rigidly together.

By removing the screw 9 and turning the section B of the crank armthrough ninety degrees, the said screw can be inserted in the openings10 and 11, as indicated by dotted lines at 12 in Fig. 2, so as tothereby hold the handle 3 in the dotted line position, Figs. 1 and 3.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, it will be seen that the present device is ofsimple and substantial conadjusted into an operative or inoperativeposition.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim iSz- 1. Thecombination of a crank :irm composed of sections, one section beingprovided with a socket, the wall or: the socket having a quadrant slotand an aperture spaced therefrom, and the other section being providedwith a shank having tapped openings adapted to register one with theslot and the other with the aperture, and fnstening means adapted to bereceived in the openings of the shank and the slot and aperture of thesocket for loosely or rigidly connecting the sections together.

2. The combination of a crank arm composed of two sec tions, one sectionbeing provided with a quadrant slot and with an aperture spaced from theslot, the other section having a shank provided with tapped openingsadapted to register one with the slot and the other with the aperture,an interchangeable fastening adapted to extend through the slot andenter the opening of the shank registering therewith or to engage in theother opening and aperture, and a handle secured to one of the sections.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM SPLITTGERBER.

structiou and so arranged that the handle can be readily

